In Press Chen, Yunchuan, & Fukuda, Shin. Is there subject-object asymmetry in acceptability of the resumptive pronoun ta inside Chinese relative clauses? To appear in Proceedings of the 30th North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL30). Ohio State University, Ohio.
2025 Chen, Yunchuan. Decoding case markers: A study on L2 comprehension of Japanese OSV sentences.
Linguistics. https://doi.org/10.1515/ling-2023-0225
2024 Chen, Yunchuan & Hester, Mac. Scope assignment in quantifier-negation sentences in early Korean-Chinese
bilinguals’ grammars. Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America (PLSA) 9(1). 5655.
https://doi.org/10.3765/plsa.v9i1.5655
2024 List, Abbey & Chen, Yunchuan. An experimental investigation of the deep o-constraint in Japanese
causative constructions. Journal of Japanese Linguistics, 40, 1, 87-108. https://doi.org/10.1515/jjl-2024-2005
2024 Chen, Yunchuan. An experimental investigation into the scope assignment of Japanese and Chinese
Quantifier-Negation sentences. Languages, 9, 111. https://doi.org/10.3390/languages9030111
2024 Chen, Yunchuan. An experimental approach to the reconstruction of the head quantifier phrase in Chinese
relative clauses. Canadian Journal of Linguistics/Revue canadienne de linguistique, 1–11.
https://doi.org/10.1017/cnj.2024.6
2023 Chen, Yunchuan, & Sun, Yixuan. An experimental investigation on subject orientation of the Chinese
reflexive ziji. To appear in Proceedings of the 34th North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics
(NACCL34). Indiana University, Indiana. PDF
2023 Chen, Yunchuan, Mani, Shivam, & Liu, Caimiao. L2 acquisition of scope of negation and conjunction
in Mandarin Chinese. Proceedings of the 47th annual Boston University Conference on Language
Development (BUCLD 47) (pp. 118-131). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press. PDF
2023 Chen, Yunchuan, Hua, Yuxuan, & Wang, Shiting. Optionality in semantic-pragmatic interface of
bilingualism? Bare numeral constructions in Tibetan and Chinese bilinguals’ grammar. Proceedings of
the Linguistic Society of America (PLSA) 8(1). 5468. PDF
2023 Chen, Yunchuan, & Huan, Tingting. Scope assignment in Quantifier-Negation sentences in Tibetan as a a
heritage language in China. Second Language Research. https://doi.org/10.1177/02676583231161164
2022 Su, Nianpo, & Chen, Yunchuan. Can the Head Quantifier Phrase Reconstruct in Doubly Embedded
Chinese Relative Clauses?," University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics: Vol. 28: Iss. 1,
Article 20. Available at: https://repository.upenn.edu/pwpl/vol28/iss1/20 PDF
2022 Kim, Hyunwoo, Chen, Yunchuan, & Liu, Xueyan. 2022. Bilingual processing of verbal and constructional
information in English dative constructions: Effects of cross-linguistic influence. Cognitive Linguistics.
https://doi.org/10.1515/cog-2021-0122
2022 Shen, Jennifer, & Chen, Yunchuan. Simplified grammar in both languages? On scope assignment in
Q-Neg sentences in English-dominant heritage Chinese speakers. Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of
America (PLSA) 7(1). 5228. PDF
2022 Christensen, Soren, & Chen, Yunchuan. Style shifts in Japanese video game commentary monologues.
Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America (PLSA) 7(1). 5227. PDF
2022 List, Abbey, & Chen, Yunchuan. An experimental investigation of the deep double-o constraint in
Japanese causative constructions. Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America (PLSA) 7(1). 5226. PDF
2022 Chen, Yunchuan. Head derivation differences between Chinese and Japanese relative clauses with
implications for L2 acquisition. In C. Shei, & S. Li (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Asian Linguistics
(pp.130-146). Oxfordshire, UK: Routledge.
2021 Chen, Yunchuan. Anaphor reconstruction in Japanese relative clauses. Language and Linguistics, 22, 2, 243-
271. https://doi.org/10.1075/lali.00082.che (click to download the paper for free)
2021 Chen, Yunchuan. Anaphor Reconstruction in Thai Relative Clauses. Journal of Southeast Asian Linguistics
Society, 14, 1, 19-31. http://hdl.handle.net/10524/52477 (click to download the paper for free)
2020 Chen, Yunchuan. An experimental investigation of reconstruction effects of the head quantifier phrase in
Chinese relative clauses. In K. Chen (Ed.), Proceedings of the 32th North American Conference on Chinese
Linguistics (pp.115-126). University of Connecticut. PDF
2020 Chen, Yunchuan. Acquisition of Japanese relative clauses by L1 Chinese learners: evidence from reflexive
pronoun resolution. Second Language Research. https://doi.org/10.1177/0267658320978502
2019 Chen, Yunchuan, & Fukuda, Shin. Anaphor reconstruction in L1 and L2 Japanese relative clauses. In R.
Slabakova, J. Corbet, L. Dominguez, A.Dudley & A. Wallington (Eds.), Explorations in Second Language
Acquisition and Processing (pp.185-196). Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. PDF
2019 Chen, Yunchuan. Two types of Possessive Passives in Japanese. Concentric: Studies in Linguistics, 45, 2,
192-210. PDF
2019 Chen, Yunchuan. The L2 acquisition of Japanese relative clauses by L1 Chinese learners: evidence from the
interpretation of the universal quantifier zen'in 'all.' In M. Brown & B. Dailey (Eds.), Proceedings of the
43rd Boston University Conference on Language Development (pp. 151-164). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla
Press. PDF
2018 Chen, Yunchuan. Chugokugo bogowasha niyoru nihongo no kankeisetsu no shutoku nitsuite (Upon how
native Chinese speakers acquire Japanese relative clauses). In T. Tanaka, T. Matsuoka, N. Takahashi & S.
Yoshii (Eds.), Ochanomizu University Nihongogaku Kenkyu Center Kenkyu Nenpo 2017 (Center for
Comparative Japanese Studies Annual Bulletin 2017) (pp. 220-224). Ochanomizu University, Tokyo. PDF
2018 Chen, Yunchuan, & Fukuda, Shin. An experimental investigation of the reconstruction effects of anaphors
in Japanese relative clauses. WAFL 13: Proceedings of the 13th Workshop on Altaic Formal Linguistics (pp.
311-318). MIT Working Papers in Linguistics, MIT Press. PDF
2018 Chen, Yunchuan, & Jiang, L. The nominal expressions in Lhasa Tibetan. In Ö. Özçelik & A. Kent (Eds.),
Proceedings of the 2nd conference on Central Asian Languages and Linguistics (pp. 119-130). Indiana
University, Indiana. PDF
2017 Chen, Yunchuan. Possessive passives in Japanese. In L. Zidani-Eroğlu, M. Ciscel, & E. Koulidobrova (Eds.),
WAFL12: Proceedings of the 12th Workshop on Altaic Formal Linguistics (pp. 43-54). MIT Working Papers in
Linguistics, MIT Press. PDF
2015 Chen, Yunchuan. Auxiliary selection between le and zhe in Chinese locative inversion sentences. In
Hongying Tao et al. (Eds.), NACCL27: Proceedings of the 27th North American Conference on Chinese
Linguistics (pp. 388-405). PDF
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